Example sentences of "[vb -s] around [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serviced by main dealer Crightons of Peterborough , the Shogun covers around 20,000 miles a year and averages 28 to 30 mpg . |
| 2 | This walk covers around 15 miles of the 560 mile Ulster Way through Fermanagh , beginning at the Roscor Viaduct at the west end of Lower Lough Erne . |
| 3 | The Galloway Forest Park covers around 76,000 hectares of forest moorland and lochs . |
| 4 | So bear in mind that when food writers say that an adult man needs around 2000 calories per day , they really mean that he needs 2000 kcals , or Calories : that is , two million calories ! |
| 5 | After all , the average three footer holds around twenty gallons of water , which can make an awful mess on the carpet ( or on the living room ceiling if the tank happens to be upstairs ) . |
| 6 | Shropshire 's Ironbridge Gorge contains around 1,000 acres of natural woodland , comprising ash , hazel , oak , hornbeam and cherry , and by the early 1980's , like many other woodlands throughout the country , it had become badly neglected . |
| 7 | Each capsule contains around 600 eggs , 94% of which were laid as " nurse eggs " for the nourishment of the remaining 6% which develop into embryos ( Fretter and Graham , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | In their publicity for ‘ 20th Century Plus ’ , Collins Classics has been saying that each disc in the series ‘ contains around 30 minutes of music ’ . |
| 9 | Barry Norman , who previews around 250 films a year , puts it down to fashion . |
| 10 | The union has around 80,000 members — 50,000 engineering workers and the rest electricians — north of the Border . |
| 11 | Tivoli has around 100 customers worldwide and is looking for an OEM deal in the Far East around the end of the year by which time its internationalisation efforts should be complete . |
| 12 | He is current chairman of Cleveland Art Society , which has around 100 members and meets once a week at Middlesbrough Art Gallery . |
| 13 | This is where the swans have been spending the regatta — at Egham just off the M25 in Surrey — it 's just been made the national swan sanctuary and has around 100 birds at any one time . |
| 14 | It now has around 200 members . |
| 15 | The organisation now has around 300,000 women in it . |
| 16 | The Princess Royal has around 10 hats made each year which means she must have at least 260 to choose from by now . |
| 17 | Our branch of the association has around nine members who work together to raise money for the full training of guide dogs estimated to cost £1,000 . |
| 18 | The Muslim Students Association , meanwhile , has around 3,000 members . |
| 19 | The club has around 70 members and runs a 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th and veterans ( ‘ The Crofters ’ ) XI , plus a mixed XI and the now thriving Colts section . |
| 20 | The union , which has around 5,000 members , said new plans by the Department of Education could remove altogether special payments for teachers taking premature retirement . |
| 21 | Each group has around 15 trainees . |
| 22 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 23 | The WRVS was founded during the Second World War and has around 150,000 volunteers ( 13% of whom are men ) providing a variety of services in the community . |
| 24 | KEF have long wanted to achieve the ideal of generating the entire musical spectrum from a single point in space ( two points for stereo of course ) , but unlike Tannoy who have gradually approached this goal over many years through continual refinements to their famous ‘ Dualconcentric ’ technique ( in which a more or less conventional tweeter is mounted behind the magnet assembly of the midrange driver , its output funnelled through a special wave-guide to join the midrange output at the neck of its cone ) KEF held back until modern magnetic materials became available ( specifically neodymium-iron-boron , which has around ten times the energy product of conventional ferrite ) which would permit a small magnet assembly to be located actually at the neck of a midrange cone — hence their nomenclature of coincident , as opposed to concentric . |
| 25 | Today , the association has around 1,000 members . |
| 26 | Concurrent has around 1,800 employees worldwide , compared with 3,500 at the point of its Masscomp acquisition . |
| 27 | Harris Corp 's information technology department has around 150 employees , with MVS , VM , Unix and MS-DOS expertise , supporting a centralised mainframe system and world-wide voice and data network . |
| 28 | NICKY eats around 2,100 calories a day . |
| 29 | On average FIDOR handles around 10,000 enquiries every year , and of these , around 50% are from members of the general public . |
| 30 | Their current exhibition , somewhat optimistically titled ‘ The Golden Age of Danish Art ’ ( most of the pictures on show date from the later decades of the nineteenth century and the early years of this one ) includes around thirty artists , with all of the above . |